Men's long jump at the 2015 World Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | 24 August (qualification) 25 August (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 32 from 22 nations | |||||||||
Winning distance | 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in) | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Events at the 2015 World Championships | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | women |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | women |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's long jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 25 August. [1] [2]
In the finals were the defending champion Aleksandr Menkov, Olympic Champion Greg Rutherford and world leader Jeff Henderson, however world #2-4 Zarck Visser, Rushwahl Samaai and Marquis Dendy were unable to get out of the rounds. Henderson was the top qualifier with an 8.36 automatic first attempt trial. Three Chinese jumpers made the final at home.
The Chinese made a statement in the first round as both Wang Jianan and Gao Xinglong jumped 8.14 to share the lead. Menkov jumped 8.02 to take the third spot while Rutherford, Henderson and four other jumpers were unable to land a legal jump. In the second round, Henderson got a legal jump of 7.95, two feet below his best of the year, but it put him in 5th place for a moment, then Wang improved to 8.18 and Rutherford popped 8.29 to assume the lead. [3] In the third round Henderson again missed the board. Kafétien Gomis made 8.02 after two fouls, Fabrice Lapierre did 8.10 and Li Jinzhe did 8.09, suddenly the world leader was pushed into ninth place and had no more jumps left. In the fourth round Rutherford put an exclamation point on his lead with an 8.41, but only Gomis was able to make a legal jump in the round. Lapierre jumped 8.20 in the fifth round to move into second place and solidified that standing with an 8.24 in the final round. Having been hampered by injury in 2013, the victory completed the full set of outdoor titles for Rutherford, making him the reigning Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Champion. [4]
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: [5]
World record | 8.95 | Tokyo, Japan | 30 August 1991 | |
Championship record | ||||
World leading | 8.52 | Toronto, Canada | 22 July 2015 | |
African record | 8.50 | Madrid, Spain | 4 July 2009 | |
Asian record | 8.48 | Sotteville, France | 2 July 2006 | |
North, Central American and Caribbean record | 8.95 | Tokyo, Japan | 30 August 1991 | |
South American record | 8.73 | Hengelo, Netherlands | 24 May 2008 | |
European record | 8.86 | Tsakhkadzor, Soviet Union | 22 May 1987 | |
Oceanian record | 8.54 | Stockholm, Sweden | 29 July 2011 |
Entry standards [6] |
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8.10 |
Date | Time | Round |
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24 August 2015 | 10:00 | Qualification |
25 August 2015 | 19:25 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+8)
Qualification: 8.15 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q). [7]
The final was started at 18:30 [8]
Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Mark | Notes |
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Greg Rutherford | x | 8.29 | x | 8.41 | – | – | 8.41 | SB | ||
Fabrice Lapierre | x | 7.85 | 8.10 | x | 8.20 | 8.24 | 8.24 | SB | ||
Wang Jianan | 8.14 | 8.18 | 8.08 | x | x | 6.27 | 8.18 | |||
4 | Gao Xinglong | 8.14 | 7.87 | 7.85 | x | 7.95 | 8.02 | 8.14 | SB | |
5 | Li Jinzhe | 7.69 | x | 8.09 | x | 8.10 | x | 8.10 | ||
6 | Aleksandr Menkov | 8.02 | x | 7.98 | x | x | x | 8.02 | ||
7 | Kafétien Gomis | x | x | 8.02 | 7.57 | x | 7.80 | 8.02 | ||
8 | Sergey Polyanskiy | 7.89 | 7.97 | x | x | x | x | 7.97 | ||
9 | Jeff Henderson | x | 7.95 | x | 7.95 | |||||
10 | Tyrone Smith | x | 7.79 | x | 7.79 | |||||
11 | Radek Juška | 7.55 | 7.57 | x | 7.57 | |||||
Michael Hartfield | x | x | x | NM |
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